Lewis blames Man City injuries for disrupted season, eyes midfield role - Soccer News

[ad_1] Rico Lewis feels accidents to a few of his Manchester Metropolis team-mates have affected his type this season, and is hoping to get extra probabilities to play in midfield sooner or later.

Lewis opened the scoring as Metropolis reached the FA Cup remaining for the 14th time of their historical past and the fourth time underneath Pep Guardiola on Sunday, beating Nottingham Forest 2-0 within the final 4 at Wembley Stadium.

On the age of 20 years and 157 days, Lewis turned the youngest participant to attain for Metropolis at Wembley since Steve MacKenzie within the 1981 FA Cup remaining versus Tottenham (19 years, 172 days).

However even an FA Cup triumph wouldn't be sufficient to make Metropolis’s season successful, with varied accidents to Rodri, John Stones, Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland derailing their Premier League title defence.

Lewis has made 41 appearances for Metropolis in all competitions this season, with solely Josko Gvardiol (48), Ilkay Gundogan (46), Bernardo Silva (44) and Savinho (42) having extra.

The England worldwide has began 32 instances – placing him joint-sixth amongst all Metropolis gamers – and ranks fourth of their squad for minutes performed (2,987), scoring twice and offering 5 assists.

However the disruption in Metropolis’s ranks has brought on him to turn into one thing of a utility participant, enjoying 56% of his minutes at right-back, 17% at left-back, 22% in midfield and 5% on the wing.

“I feel it’s troublesome. It’s a bit unfortunate at sure instances of the season the place you’re enjoying in video games the place you’ve not acquired everybody on the workforce,” Lewis mentioned after Sunday’s recreation.

“You’ve acquired some folks injured so you may’t play as usually as you'd do.

“The entire workforce is discombobulated and stuff like that. It’s a part of soccer. I mentioned this even when it was going properly.”

Lewis got here by Metropolis’s ranks as a full-back, however like fellow teen Nico O’Reilly, might find yourself enjoying additional ahead.

Requested if he noticed his future in midfield, Lewis mentioned: “I wish to play there. I take pleasure in enjoying in there. I feel I can have an effect on the sport there. I feel that’s the principle factor.

“I can do the defensive bit as properly. I feel the extra I do play there, the extra I really feel snug and the extra I’ll adapt to the place as properly.”

Metropolis’s subsequent Premier League recreation pits them towards Wolves on Friday, with matches towards Southampton, Bournemouth and Fulham to comply with, in addition to the FA Cup remaining towards Crystal Palace on Might 17.